This afternoon, I let my husband to pick something that he wanted me to bake today. My husband randomly chose Shortbread Cookies recipe from the internet and I followed his choice. Since I had a burning desire to decorate cookies in pretty manner by using royal icing, I skipped the chocolate dip idea as per advised in this Shortbread Cookies original recipe and made some royal icing instead.
Here's the slightly modified egg-less Sugar Cookies recipe that I used today.
My first trial of decorating cookies with royal icing after so long.
Sugar Cookies
Ingredients:
- 260 gr Flour
- 1 tbsp Milk Powder
- 220 gr Margarine or softened unsalted butter
- 60 gr Icing Sugar
- 1 tsp Vanilla Essence
Royal Icing:
- 1 Egg White
- 150 gr Icing Sugar
- 1 tbsp Lemon Juice
- 1 tsp Vanilla Essence
Tutorial:
- Mix together the flour and milk powder in a dry container. Set aside.
- Cream margarine, vanilla essence and icing sugar until white using high-speed electric mixer.
- Fold in the flour and milk powder into the margarine mixture by using spatula.
- Wrap the cookie dough in a plastic wrap and chill it in the fridge for about one hour.
- Mould the chilled cookies dough into desired shapes and bake the cookies in preheated oven for 10-15 minutes until golden brown. Bear in mind these three tips in baking cookies so you'd have perfect looking cookies.
- Let the cookies to completely cool before decorating them with royal icing or chocolate dip.
- To make royal icing: Combine egg white, lemon juice and vanilla essence in a large bowl. Beat them together by using high-speed mixer whilst slowly adding the icing sugar. Keep beating it until the mixture forms soft peaks and ready for piping. Add some food colouring or when necessary. I added some strawberry essence and pink food colouring into my royal icing today.
- Happy decorating the cookies. Let the royal icing on the cookies dry and set a firm glaze before storing the decorated cookies in an air-tight plastic container.
If you do not plan to make any royal icing or chocolate dip for these sugar cookies or shortbread cookies, I suggest you add a bit more icing sugar into the basic shortbread cookies recipe above to make the cookies tastier.
I remember I once made sugar cookies and sold them
at my Mom's Saloon during Christmas about ten years ago. Sweet memory!
In conclusion, for a beginner baker like me, decorating cookies is indeed a fun yet stressful episode. It was stressful mainly because I could not produce the nice decorated cookies that I pictured in my mind. Anyway, although decorating cookies one by one took a really long time to finish, overall, I had a good time baking and decorating the cookies today.
they look cute and lovely. but I'm so lazy to grab the ingredients =.=
ReplyDeleteThese look so pretty! I bet they are delicious!!!
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